Rebekah Vardy must pay more than £1.4m of Coleen Rooney's legal costs following their libel battle, a judge has said.
Mrs Rooney ran up a legal bill totalling more than £1.8m while successfully defending herself against Mrs Vardy's High Court claim in 2022. After Mrs Vardy lost the case, court documents showed she had been ordered to pay 90% of Mrs Rooney's costs.
Earlier on Tuesday, a specialist costs court was told that Mrs Vardy had agreed to pay £1.19m to Mrs Rooney, who was also asking for a further £315,000 in "assessment costs".
Costs judge Mark Whalan then said it was "reasonable and proportionate" for Mrs Vardy to pay her an additional £212,266. This took the total to just over £1.4m, including interest.
He said he was "generally happy" that the outcome represented a "commercially satisfactory conclusion for both sides", but noted there had been "extraordinary expenditure of costs" by the parties.
"I do mean it when I say that I hope that this is the end of a long and unhappy road."
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